The workers of Mirafiori they cross their arms. The workers of the second shift of the bodywork of the Turin factory began a spontaneous strike after the meetings of the Fiom in the factory. A procession of workers from the 500 electric line exited from Door 2 of the plant. “The workers are worried, they want to send a precise signal to the institutions. Mirafiori cannot close”, they say the general secretary of the Turin Fiom, Edi Lazzi, and the number one of the Piedmont CGIL, Giorgio Airaudo. It is the first sign of intolerance after the tensions between the government and Stellantis and, above all, the interview dell’ad Carlos Tavares a Bloomberg on the negative effects of government incentive policies. Subsidies which, if insufficient, can put jobs and factories at risk, like that of Mirafiori to the North and Pomigliano d’Arco to the South. “Let’s mobilize like the farmers did. The future is uncertain and they won’t give us answers”, say some blue collars during the meetings organized by the CGIL metalworkers’ union. “Based on the knowledge we have, Mirafiori will no longer have products from 2027,” Airaudo said at the meeting. “The Levante will cease in the spring (20 cars per day as of today), the Maseratis have been postponed to 2027/’28 (10 cars per day), the electric 500 will go on a single shift from next Monday for seven weeks of redundancy ( 220 cars per day). With these numbers – he observed – if new products do not arrive and there is no reversal of trend on the European market, Mirafiori will be reduced to a glimmer of production. The redundancy fund, the employment the total number of the site has gone from 20,000 to 12,000 workers. In recent years 1,500 employees, technicians and engineers have left the company due to resignation or resignation incentivized with 120 thousand euros. Enough is enough, we want a plan for Mirafiori that will take us to 200,000 cars , as requested by the joint platform of Fim, Fiom and Uilm and give employment guarantees for the next decade. The ‘Mirafiori case’ must become a national case, Paris and Rome must deal with it.” According to Fiom “local institutions, from the Municipality to the Region, must do their part with tools that make our territory competitive towards Stellantis for the electric car and for any other producers that may arrive in Italy. We must get out of the Stockholm syndrome , there will no longer be a family to take care of our future.”
by Diego Longhin 06 February 2024
Stellantis intervened on the issue, after the remote back and forth with CEO Tavares last week, the Minister of Business and Made in Italy, Adolfo Urso: the new incentive plan that we are putting on the ground is “oriented above all to models that can be implemented in our country”. And he adds: “We hope that the company will respond to the objectives it has set itself and which it has stated in all offices, because it is clear that there must be an adequate response regarding the car production plan in our country” or from next year the resources of the automotive fund “will be used to incentivize production and not consumption”.
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by Diego Longhin 06 February 2024
Regarding the relationship with Stellantis, Urso says that “I met Elkann, I think, three times in a year. First at the ministry, then in France, then I saw him remotely and we had several meetings. And the same with Tavares. There it is an assiduous dialogue, as there must be, with this great Italian and multinational reality”. Next week the five working groups on the Stellantis table will resume, acting in parallel with the Automotive table. “Ours is, as it should be, a continuous construction site to enhance production and Italianness”, observes Urso.
2024-02-07 21:40:41
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